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New Jersey passed the Anti-Eviction Act of 1974, becoming the first state to enact a just cause eviction law. [1] California passed the Tenant Protection Act of 2019 to remedy the state's housing shortage, leading to renewed interest in utilizing just cause eviction laws to counteract the national housing crisis. [8]
Under this proposal, landlords would be required to have a "good cause" to remove a tenant, such as non-payment or violating the lease. Good cause eviction vote stalled as City Council debates ...
Landlords in Beacon will no longer be able to increase a tenant’s rent by more than 5% without court approval or remove them without cause.
'Good cause eviction” law can prevent retaliatory evictions. In the coming months, Rochester City Council will decide whether the city should opt-in to the state’s “good cause eviction ...
Eviction is the removal of a tenant from rental property by the landlord. In some jurisdictions it may also involve the removal of persons from premises that were foreclosed by a mortgagee (often, the prior owners who defaulted on a mortgage).
Good cause is a legal term denoting adequate or substantial grounds or reason to take a certain action, or to fail to take an action prescribed by law. What constitutes a good cause is usually determined on a case-by-case basis and is thus relative.
Renter advocates have sought the new protections for five years through a state bill known as Good Cause Eviction, which would force many landlords to justify rent increases greater than 3% and ...
In contrast, while White Americans comprise over half of all renters at 50.5%, they constitute only 26.3% of those facing eviction and 32.0% of those evicted. [44] Just-Cause Eviction laws are especially crucial in contexts where certain groups, such as Black Americans in this case, face a higher risk of eviction despite being a smaller ...